Modern & Contemporary

Wendy Red Star, Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven) from Medicine Crow & The 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, 2014. Pigment print on archival photo-paper, edition 11/15, 24 × 16 1⁄2 inches (60.96 × 41.91 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Museum purchase with funds provided by Jennifer McCracken New (A.B.’90, J.D.’94) and Jason G. New (J.D.’94), 2019.18.1. © Wendy Red Star. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Firelei Báez, Tignon for Ayda Weddo (or that which a center can not hold), 2019. Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas, 91 1⁄2 × 114 1⁄4 inches (232.41 × 290.2 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by the Office of the Provost, Duke University; 2019.26.1. © Firelei Báez. Image courtesy of James Cohan, New York.

Dawoud Bey, David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale I, 1983. Archival pigment photograph on dibound mount, edition 1/6, 44 × 33 inches (111.76 × 83.82 cm). Museum purchase with additional funds provided by the Office of the Provost, Duke University; 2019.20.1. © Dawoud Bey.

Derek Fordjour, Signing Day, 2019. Acrylic, charcoal, oil pastel, and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas; 74 1/2 × 50 1/2 inches (189.23 × 128.27 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Blake Byrne, A.B.’57; 2019.25.1. © Derek Fordjour. Courtesy of Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.